Sesame Workshop to Obama: Take Big Bird ad down

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Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, is requesting that the Obama campaign take down a new ad portraying Mitt Romney as more concerned with Big Bird than Wall Street criminals.

"Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns," the group said. "We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down."

Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters today that they're reviewing Sesame Workshop's request to pull the ad.


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57528812/sesame-workshop-to-obama-take-big-bird-ad-down/

How pathetic and desperate are they????
 
Big Bird sales alone are enough to pay for PBS... There comes a time when we need to ask if we should give borrowed money to a corporation that doesn't need it. Romney in this case is right.
 
Damocles said:
Big Bird sales alone are enough to pay for PBS... There comes a time when we need to ask if we should give borrowed money to a corporation that doesn't need it. Romney in this case is right.
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$455 million to Seasame street

$20 billion to five major oil companies

Which one do you think will be cut first.
 
Rana said:
$455 million to Seasame street

$20 billion to five major oil companies

Which one do you think will be cut first.
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I can live without Big Bird...........I can't live without oil and the thousands of things its brings to us.....
 
Rana said:
$455 million to Seasame street

$20 billion to five major oil companies

Which one do you think will be cut first.
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Rana said:
$455 million to Seasame street

$20 billion to five major oil companies

Which one do you think will be cut first.
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According to Romney those are on the table, I don't think either will survive. And it is about $2.8 Billion, not 20. Most of which goes to small companies who aren't part of the big conglomerations.
 
Damocles said:
According to Romney those are on the table, I don't think either will survive. And it is about $2.8 Billion, not 20. Most of which goes to small companies who aren't part of the big conglomerations.
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Sorry, you are correct, should have left the zero off. I would.ike to see Romney's proposal for this, thanks.
 
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I can live without all $20.455 billion, myself...
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You are.....and even though YOU'RE attitude is partly responsible for spending it, you won't have to pay it back....your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will....
 
Just me, but I'd rather be told to stop using Big Bird in ads than to be told to stop using the death of a Navy Seal in my stump speech by the guy's mother.
 
Damocles said:
According to Romney those are on the table, I don't think either will survive. And it is about $2.8 Billion, not 20. Most of which goes to small companies who aren't part of the big conglomerations.
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So Romney only has only $7,700,000,000,000 or so to get to revenue neutrality.
 
General Buck Turgidson said:
Just me, but I'd rather be told to stop using Big Bird in ads than to be told to stop using the death of a Navy Seal in my stump speech by the guy's mother.
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I'd rather my opponent be so small that his focus is on Big Bird than an opponent who is told by that Navy SEAL's wife that he absolutely would have wanted it that way...
 
Damocles said:
I'd rather my opponent be so small that his focus is on Big Bird than an opponent who is told by that Navy SEAL's wife that he absolutely would have wanted it that way...
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So small his focus is on Big Bird? Um, Mitt Romney brought up Big Bird in the first instance. It is the only idea he could identify with any degree of particularity to close the $8T revenue loss from his tax plan. Talk about thinking small.

By the way, what's this reference to a Navy SEAL's wife? Link it up. Far as I know, he was not married.
 
General Buck Turgidson said:
Just me, but I'd rather be told to stop using Big Bird in ads than to be told to stop using the death of a Navy Seal in my stump speech by the guy's mother.
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I was going to post this. I haven't read the board so pardon me if it's been posted elsewhere, but I think it belongs on this thread anyway (especially since dancing damo appears to be attempting to do a twist):

"I don't trust Romney. He shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda," she told WHDH. "It's wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama.”
Doherty similarly decried the politicization of her son's death in an interview with the Boston Herald last month.

Glen Doherty's friend, Elf Ellefsen, also spoke with Seattle's KIRO, expressing similar disagreement with Romney's mention of his friend's death.

According to Ellefsen, Doherty found his exchange with Romney to be "insincere and stale."

"Mitt Romney approached him ultimately four times, using this private gathering as a political venture to further his image," Ellefsen told KIRO. "He kept introducing himself as Mitt Romney, a political figure. The same introduction, the same opening line ... [Doherty] said it was pathetic and comical to have the same person come up to you within only a half hour, have this person reintroduce himself to you, having absolutely no idea whatsoever that he just did this 20 minutes ago, and did not even recognize Glen's face."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/mitt-romney-glen-doherty_n_1954925.html
 
General Buck Turgidson said:
So small his focus is on Big Bird? Um, Mitt Romney brought up Big Bird in the first instance. It is the only idea he could identify with any degree of particularity to close the $8T revenue loss from his tax plan. Talk about thinking small.
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He brought up more than one example, but that is all they were. Examples. That the focus of Obama is a silly attempt to dismiss a much larger idea with images of Big Bird (who absolutely will do fine without our tax dollars) is a sign, IMO, of desperation. I think it may be due to the new direction of polls.

By the way, what's this reference to a Navy SEAL's wife? Link it up. Far as I know, he was not married.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS...personal-story/story?id=17434211#.UHXzQPL-X0T

"To be honest, I've been through a lot and I'm not a super emotional person but it brings me to tears," Horton said in an interview with ABC News, after being informed of her husband's newfound spot on the national stage. "Not that he's telling my story, but that he's telling my husband's story, it means the world to me.

"One of the last things my husband said to me before he was killed, when I would ask him, 'Chris, what do you need over there? What can I send you?' he said, 'I need a new president,'" Horton recalled.
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Damocles said:
He brought up more than one example, but that is all they were. Examples. That the focus of Obama is a silly attempt to dismiss a much larger idea with images of Big Bird (who absolutely will do fine without our tax dollars) is a sign, IMO, of desperation. I think it may be due to the new direction of polls.



http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS...personal-story/story?id=17434211#.UHXzQPL-X0T
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Two different people Damo.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will no longer bring up Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL killed in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, the campaign said Wednesday in response to a complaint from Doherty's mother.
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Jane Horton began crying on the other end of the phone when she learned that Mitt Romney had been using the story of her husband, Chris Horton, who was killed in Afghanistan, as a part of his stump speech.
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Nice try attempting to confuse the issue though.

Fact: Mitt Romeny was told to cease and desist from exploiting the death of a Navy Seal by that young man's mother. Further, said Navy Seal's friend told an extremely unflattering to Romney recounting of this "meeting":

"I don't trust Romney. He shouldn't make my son's death part of his political agenda," she told WHDH. "It's wrong to use these brave young men, who wanted freedom for all, to degrade Obama.”
Doherty similarly decried the politicization of her son's death in an interview with the Boston Herald last month.

Glen Doherty's friend, Elf Ellefsen, also spoke with Seattle's KIRO, expressing similar disagreement with Romney's mention of his friend's death.

According to Ellefsen, Doherty found his exchange with Romney to be "insincere and stale."

"Mitt Romney approached him ultimately four times, using this private gathering as a political venture to further his image," Ellefsen told KIRO. "He kept introducing himself as Mitt Romney, a political figure. The same introduction, the same opening line ... [Doherty] said it was pathetic and comical to have the same person come up to you within only a half hour, have this person reintroduce himself to you, having absolutely no idea whatsoever that he just did this 20 minutes ago, and did not even recognize Glen's face."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_1954925.html
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